you’ve painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair. ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? the shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down – oh ruby don’t take your love to town

its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed and the wants and the needs of a woman your age, ruby i realize, but it won’t be long i’ve heard them say until i not around oh ruby don’t take your love to town

it wasn’t me that started that old crazy asian war but i was proud to go and do my patriotic ch*r* and yes, it’s true that i’m not the man i used to be… oh ruby i still need some company.

she’s leavin’ now ’cause i heard the slammin’ iof the door the way i know i’ve heard it slam one hundred times before and if i could move i’d get my gun and put her in the ground oh ruby for god’s sake turn around